Project description
Tailor-made crisis management training for first response organisations
Crisis management depends on a set of prerequisites such as proactivity, a spirit of cooperation and a dense network of dissemination media. The EU-funded ASSISTANCE project is merging virtual reality, mixed reality and augmented reality, offering advanced training to first response organisations aiming at cohesive cooperation and an enhancement of their capabilities. Taking into account the type of crisis that each first response organisation is called to mitigate, the project will offer a set of modules tailored to their real needs based on the type of incident. The proposed solutions will be demonstrated and validated under controlled conditions.
Objective
The main purpose of ASSISTANCE project is twofold: On the one hand to help and protect different kind of first responders’ (FR) organizations that work together taking into account the type of disaster/crisis they are mitigating in each moment and on the other hand, to enhance their capabilities for facing complex situations providing them advanced training based on Virtual Reality (VR), Mixed Reality (MR) and Augmented Reality (AR), tailored to their real needs depending on the type of incident. ASSISTANCE project will use novel technologies such as; UAV, Robots, drones’ swarms and advanced training based on VR, MR and AR for increasing the FR’s situation awareness (SA) taking into account their need in terms of data (e.g. real time video, persons and objects location, evacuation routes status, ad-hoc network coverage and so on). Different types of adapted SA modules will be developed inside a common SA framework capable of offering the sensor outcome needed by each FR organization (e.g. real time video and resources location for firemen, evacuation routes status for emergency health services and so on). Regarding training, an advanced training network based on VR, MR, AR and other novel technologies and methodologies (e.g. tailored curricula, immersive interfaces, adapted training methodology definition, etc.) will be established in order to share different VR platforms and scenarios for enhancing the current training capabilities and skills of different FRs organization. All the ASSISTANCE results will be tested under controlled conditions in three different demostration pilots.
Solutions will be developed in compliance with EU societal values, fundamental rights and applicable legislation, including in the area of privacy and personal data protection. Societal aspects (e.g. perception of security, possible effects of technological solutions on societal resilience, gender diversity) have to be taken into account in a comprehensive and thorough manner.
Fields of science
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencescomputer securitydata protection
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringroboticsautonomous robotsdrones
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringsensors
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencessoftwaresoftware applicationsvirtual reality
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RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinator
46022 Valencia
Spain
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Participants (18)
46014 Valencia
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92190 MEUDON
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46118 Valencia
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02 486 Warsaw
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41039 La Rinconada Sevilla
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2595 DA Den Haag
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501 15 Boras
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6801 HA Arnhem
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39005 Santander
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3198 LS Rozenburg
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35210 Konak Izmir
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28071 Madrid
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1015 Lausanne
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00186 Roma
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
136 25 Haninge
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05-850 Ozarow Mazowiecki
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05-420 Jozefow
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80024 Cardito
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.